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Trump unloads on media in fiery rant, says coronovirus briefings 'not worth the time and effort'


RT
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:11 UTC
Donald Trump
© REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstU.S. President Donald Trump addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2020.
US President Donald Trump has fired off a scathing broadside at mainstream media, accusing them of peddling a false claim that he branded coronavirus a "hoax," while calling Covid-19 briefings a time spent in vain.

"What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately," the president tweeted, as he took to his favourite communication medium on Saturday evening.


The swipe at the media comes after he forwent what has become a tradition to stage daily coronavirus press conferences where he would update the nation on his administration's response to the pandemic and then be grilled by reporters. Briefings would typically feature an array of top officials from the coronavirus task force, including VP Mike Pence, and last for over an hour.
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Stone says Special Counsel recommended 'no jail time' if he turned on Trump. He refused to lie

Sara Carter
SarahACarter.com
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:32 UTC
roger stone
© Chip Somodevilla / Getty ImagesRoger Stone leaves court in Washington after being sentenced Thursday.
Longtime Trump ally Roger Stone gave an explosive interview to the Sara Carter Show Monday, revealing that Special Counsel Prosecutor Jeannie Rhee had tried to pressure him on the contents of 29 phone conversations he shared with his good friend President Donald Trump during Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. He told this reporter that he refused to lie to the FBI and Special Counsel prosecutors against his friend and in the end that's why the prosecutors brought erroneous charges against him that had nothing to do with their now-debunked Russia probe.

Stone, who is supposed to begin his 3-year jail sentence Friday, has seen his life and that of his family turned upside down. He has lost his home, his life savings, his insurance and his ability to make an income. He said in the end, he wonders if he'll survive his jail sentence as a 67-year-old man due to the COVID19 outbreak, while others like disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti have been released for 90 days due to the outbreak.

"On July 24th, 2019, the Mueller prosecutors offered my lawyers a deal," said Stone. "If Stone will fess up, if he will re-characterize thirty phone conversations between myself and candidate Trump, which they had phone records of, but no tapes of. If I would correctly remember the way they wanted me to, they would recommend no jail time for me and I refused. That's what this whole atrocity has been about."

He described the shock when the FBI conducted a predawn raid on his home on Jan. 24, saying they terrorized his family and used an unimaginable amount of firepower, tactical vehicles and manpower brought to his home that morning. He also discussed the fact that CNN had arrived 11 minutes before the FBI raid, with cameras ready to record the incident and blast it across the globe. More importantly, he questioned why FBI Director Christopher Wray continues to obstruct the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch from obtaining internal email communications between the FBI and CNN that he says would reveal what agents tipped off cable network about the raid. He called Wray 'nothing more' than a Washington D.C. "swamp creature."
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USA

Trump does not rule out hiring Flynn again if exonerated

Alex Nitzberg
Just the News
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:28 UTC
General Flynn
© Mark Makela/Getty ImagesRetired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in September 2016
Trump made the comments at Monday's coronavirus task force briefing

President Trump on Monday did not rule out the possibility of bringing his former national security advisor Michael Flynn back into the administration if the retired general is exonerated.

"I will only say this: I think that General Flynn is a wonderful man. He had a wonderful career and it was a disgrace what happened to General Flynn," Trump said during Monday's coronavirus task force briefing.

"Let's see what happens now. But what happened to General Flynn should never happen again in our country," Trump said.

Flynn in January filed a motion to dismiss his conviction, and on Friday filed a supplement to the motion claiming he was framed.

"This afternoon, the government produced to Mr. Flynn stunning Brady evidence that proves Mr. Flynn's allegations of having been deliberately set up and framed by corrupt agents at the top of the FBI," Flynn's lawyers wrote in a supplement filed on Friday.

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Coronavirus plus Biden endorsement: Sanders' campaign blasts cancellation of NY primary as 'blow to American democracy'

Gary Grumbach and Dareh Gregorian
NBC News
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 01:24 UTC
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© Matt Rourke / AP / FileBernie Sanders and Joe Biden speak before a Democratic presidential primary debate in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 25, 2020.
Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign blasted the New York State Board of Elections' announcement on Monday that his name would not appear on the ballot for the state's presidential primary in June, calling the move an "outrage" and "a blow to American democracy."

"Just last week Vice President Biden warned the American people that President Trump could use the current crisis as an excuse to postpone the November election. Well, he now has a precedent thanks to New York state," Sanders 2020 senior adviser Jeff Weaver said in a statement.

The statement was issued hours after the state Board of Elections, citing coronavirus concerns and Sanders' endorsement of Biden, announced it was effectively canceling the primary by pulling Sanders' name off the ballot.

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Best of the Web: Trump and Putin talk: How is this bad?

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
Trump and Putin
According to MSN and most mainstream American news outlets, the Trump administration has caused certain lawmakers on Capitol Hill deep concern over a gesture of peace and brotherhood between nations. The coming row will show the world, the real purveyors of crisis and war on our planet. Read on to find out who they are.

MSN bills a document drafted by the Trump administration as an "unusual declaration intended to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a meeting between American and Soviet troops at the Elbe River on April 25, 1945." But, such an olive branch only seems unusual if we consider the never-ending conflict between the United States and Russia as acceptable.

The MSN reporters cannot even come up with a decent provocation to justify their one-sided report. The best Microsoft's news dogs can come up with is Russian fighters buzzing American Navy planes over the Mediterranean Sea. That's as if the US Navy never practiced targeting Mig or Sukhoi jets whenever they're close by. Readers of American media get a constant menu like this. Russia helping Syria. Putin wants to remake the Soviet Union. And so on.

The ones so deeply concerned include Rep. Eliot Engel (D, NY), who is, if you can imagine, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. What this psychopath Tweeted should make a chill run down your spine if you ever wondered about world peace:
"Everyone knows that Trump has a bizarre infatuation with Russia's autocratic leader and that Trump constantly plays into Putin's hands."

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Iranavirus? Pompeo wants to claim US never left the JCPOA to increase pressure on Iran


Sputnik
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:17 UTC
Pompeo/map
© YouTubeUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran in 2018. After this move, US sanctions on the country were reimposed, and the Trump administration refused to lift them amid the coronavirus pandemic crisis.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is reportedly drafting his team to come up with legal arguments as to how the United States is still a part on nuclear agreement, although Donald Trump revoked US participation in 2018, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

According to the report, the moves could be a part of "an intricate strategy to pressure the United Nations Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Tehran" or a move that could result in even harsher sanctions for Iran.

Trump administration officials are reportedly mulling a resolution that would prohibit other countries from exporting conventional arms to Iran after the current ban expires in October. In order for this resolution to circumvent opposition from Russia and China, Pompeo's team has allegedly come up with a plan in which the White House would claim that, legally, the US is still a part of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

Comment: While the whole world is being downgraded and neutered, Pomposterous remains true to form.

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Netanyahu: US will give Israel the 'green light' for Jordan Valley's annexation within months


Sputnik
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:08 UTC
Netanyahu
© LA TimesIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
The so called "deal of the century" proposed by US President Donald Trump, which sets out a two-state solution, with Israel extending its sovereignty over the West Bank, was firmly rejected by Palestinian leaders as soon as it was unveiled.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that the United States may soon approve Israel's move to annex parts of the West Bank.

During a video address on 26 April, Netanyahu mentioned the so called "deal of the century" peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump in January, describing said proposal as a promise to recognise Israel's authority over West Bank settlement land.

"A couple of months from now I am confident that that pledge will be honoured," he said.

This development comes after Netanyahu set 1 July for the start of cabinet discussions on extending Israeli sovereignty to Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley's annexation.

Comment: Israel doesn't need US' permission, nor should US approval be offered.

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US extends electricity waiver to Iraq for Iranian energy


RFE/RL
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:04 UTC
Pompeo
© Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has reportedly granted a fresh extension on a waiver to let Iraq import electricity from neighboring Iran as efforts continue to form a lasting government in Baghdad, but possibly for a shorter period to press the Iraqi administration into greater action.

Reuters and AP quoted unnamed sources on the U.S. and Iraqi sides confirming the prolongation of the State Department waiver. But the U.S. source, from the State Department, suggested it would be reevaluated sooner than the 90, 120, or even 30 days that were being granted up to last month.

"The secretary [Pompeo] granted this brief extension of the waiver to allow time for the formation of a credible government," Reuters quoted a State Department official as saying, adding that the new waiver would expire on May 26.
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USA

The washed-up US empire

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik News
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:13 UTC
Uncle Sam
© CCO
The harder they come, the harder they fall, as reggae singer Jimmy Cliff once put it. No nation has come harder than the United States with its history of relentless wars and mass destruction, nauseatingly dressed up with virtuous rhetoric about supposedly leading the free world.

There was a time when the slick American propaganda held the world in thrall as if it were true. Many nations once gullibly looked to the US for leadership. Not any more.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed presumed US global power as a hollowed-out caricature. America's response to the disease is abysmal. It is the world's leader in the numbers of deaths and infections, unable to cope because of the woeful lack of an organized, functioning public health system. How damning is that?

Another factor in why the US has been hit so badly by the pandemic is due to the parlous conditions for tens of millions of its workers who live on the brink of poverty with little social safety net. That speaks to the real undemocratic nature of American society as opposed to all the arrogant delusions of "exceptionalism".

This appalling disaster is against a backdrop of Washington spending trillions of dollars on nuclear weapons and maintaining hundreds of thousands of troops in military bases all around the world backed up by legions of warships and warplanes.
"The global coronavirus crisis... [has] quickly brought the richest and most powerful nation in the history of the world to its knees," according to the US magazine, Politico.
US presidential historian Douglas Brinkley is quoted by Politico as saying: "The United States was once known for its can-do culture. We built the Panama Canal and we put a man on the moon. And now we can't get a swab or a face mask or a gown and we have no real chain of command."
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Meathead Sen. Tom Cotton wants to ban advanced science degrees for Chinese students so they can't 'steal' COVID-19 vaccine


Crooks and Liars
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:40 UTC
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© AP Photo/Carolyn KasterSen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Sunday argued that the United States should ban Chinese students from learning about science while they are in the United States.

During an interview on Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures program, Cotton asserted that China is trying to "actively trying steal" a coronavirus vaccine from the U.S.

"The Chinese Communist Party has been stealing America's intellectual property for decades and they're not going to magically stop in the middle of a pandemic," Cotton opined. "In the middle of a pandemic, what's the most valuable intellectual property in the world? It's the research that our great laboratories and life science companies are doing on prophylactic drugs, therapeutic drugs and ultimately a vaccine."

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